Erytheia (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Erythia or Erytheia or Erythea (Ancient Greek: Ερυθεια from erythos "red") may refer to the following figures:

• Erythia, also called Erytheis (Ερυθεις), one of the Hesperides (Nymphs of the West).
• Erythia, daughter of Geryon and mother, by Hermes, of Norax, the man who led the Iberians to Sardinia.
• Erythia, the home of the above three-bodied giant Geryon.

Classic Literature Sources

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erytheia:

• Euripides, Heracles Mad, 420 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Aristotle, Meteorologica 2. 3 359a 26 ff (ed. Ross trans. Webster) (Greek philosopher C4th BC)
• Isocrates, Helen 24 ff (trans. Norlin) (Greek philosophy C4th BC)
• Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 843b 133 (ed. Ross trans. Dowdall) (Greek rhetoric C4th to 3rd BC)
• Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 844a
• Fragment, Stesichorus, The Tale of Geryon 5 (trans. Edmond 1920, Lyra Graeca Vol 2) (Greek commentary C1st to C1st AD)
• Strabo, Geography 3. 2. 11 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Strabo, Geography 3. 5. 4
• Lucian, The Dance 56 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satirist C2nd AD)
• Oppian, Cynegetica 2. 109 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C2nd AD)
• Hippolytus, Philosophumena 5 The Ophite Heresies 25 (Philosophumena by Hippolytus, Legge 1921 Vol 1 p. 172) (Christian theology C3rd AD)
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2.4 330 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD)
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2.4 337 ff
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2.4 500
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 4.18 351
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 5.38 879

Classical literature source for Erytheis:

• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1422 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythia:

• Pliny, Natural History 4. 36. (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman historian C1st AD)
• Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 4. 36 (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 369)
• Silius, Punica 16.193 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 1. 6. 1 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 10 ff
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 10 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Scholiast on Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 10 (Apollodorus The Library trans. Frazer 1921 Vol 1 p. 213)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythea:

• Hesiod, Theogony 289 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
• Hesiod, Theogony 983
• Herodotus, Herodotus 4. 8. 1 ff (trans. Godley) (Greek history C5th BC)
• Parthenius, The Love Romances, The Story of Celtine 30. 1 ff (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poetry C1st BC)
• Propertius, Elegies 4. 11. 1 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
• Ovid, Fasti 5. 645 ff (trans. Frazer) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Appian, Roman History, The Civil Wars 2. 39 ff (trans. White) (Greek history C2nd AD)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 36. 3 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 10. 2. 9 ff
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 10 17. 4
• Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned 11. 38 ff (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)
• Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned 11. 39 (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)

References

• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.